Re: Schemes for record level access control

2017-05-12 Thread G-Mail via 4D_Tech
Kirk: Of course there are all sorts of ways this could be done. It all depends on the complexity. We had to record by each user which records they were restricted from seeing. We also needed to permit / restrict by a group as well. Therefore we could not put a ‘flag’ within the record. When a

Re: Server Mirroring

2017-03-21 Thread G-Mail via 4D_Tech
Cannon: We used mirroring extensively last with version 12 (before I ‘retired’). We used it at many of our sites since mirroring was first available (can’t remember which version that was). Of course now we are on v16 so things will likely have changed. We will be implementing mirroring with

Re: Online Documentation with Right Click on command

2017-03-14 Thread G-Mail via 4D_Tech
Thanks Doug and Chip: The download link for downloading 15R4 documentation, or 16 is not doing anything for me in any of my browsers. I played around with the Web link and got rid of the ‘r’ that was after the 15 and then the web documentation for the command comes up for v15.4. That will get

Online Documentation with Right Click on command

2017-03-14 Thread G-Mail via 4D_Tech
I have got addicted to using the right click on a command to view that commands documentation. A few weeks ago this stopped working for me, and for the other programmer in another country. I believe the settings are located in the 4D Preferences - Documentation Location. The Web site setting

Re: Question about storing data outside of datafile

2017-02-15 Thread G-Mail via 4D_Tech
Chuck: At each site we stored terabytes of files (PDFs, pictures, etc therefore hundreds of thousands of documents) outside the data file for 24 years at a few hundred sites. As you know medical so many regulations on security and logging of changes to the files. 1. We automatically created